Beer Census 2014 Is Happening — Because These Guys Want to Create a "Pandora of Alcohol"

Next Glass, an app currently in development, is striving to be the self-proclaimed "Pandora of alcohol" by tailoring beer and wine recommendations to individual user tastes, each rooted in science rather than subjective opinion.

A little bit about the app itself: Just like Pandora allows music aficionados and amateurs alike to do with their favorites tunes, Next Glass users will create an account and rate beverages they try, as they try them. The app will use that information, as well as a unique chemical makeup and composition rating system, to choose the user's next drink for them (or at least suggest one that they're likely to enjoy) based on their personal preferences. But where Pandora uses rhythmic algorithms to find the perfect song for your every mood, Next Glass analyzes the chemistry and composition of as many wine and beer varieties as possible in their "lab" (which is actually super scientific-looking, and, according to Grubstreet, can process as many as 200 bottles a day) in order to make the best libation recommendations possible. And since, as the Next Glass website states, "There is no discrimination in science," you no longer have to take the word of a cocktail critic alone, because you have cold, hard data to rely on. And data don't lie, folks.

Which brings us to #BeerCensus2014. As Grubstreet reports, developers — and, we'd imagine, beer obsessives — George Taylor and Stephen Pond are traveling around the country in an effort to find, try, and chemically analyze as many beers (from the big labels to the tiny craft brews) as possible. The goal is to determine every beer's "fingerprint," offering an objective analysis that can be used to predict if you'll love the beer or find it utterly nauseating. Because the more beers that have been analyzed and categorically entered into the Next Glass system, the better for us app users, of course.

Learn more about the app by visiting the Next Glass website (where you can also sign up to be alerted when your automated beer butler is ready for download). Here's a sneak peak of the app from their website: